Something you might not know about me is that I have a tendency to fixate on things. For long periods, the object of my fixation – whatever it is – demands huge chunks of my energy. I tend to throw myself into these things, boots and all. I think my partner finds this trait to be my most endearing… and my most frustrating.

Way back in 2009, my new vampire obsession was most definitely what you might call a…”fixation”. Back then, I was reading the Tangler Sookie Stackhouse forum and posting regularly on HBO’s True Blood forum – the kind of long-winded, detailed posts that I still seem to write now. After all this time, you’d think I’d learn something about editing. Anyway, it dawned on me one day that I was putting an excessive amount of energy into these posts, only for them to be promptly buried in a forum that saw hundreds and hundreds of posts a day.

So I decided to start a little WordPress blog, just for me. A place to get all this stuff out of my head, and kick my ideas about True Blood and the Sookie novels around. Somewhere that I could keep my thoughts together so that when I wanted to post on a forum, I could just copy and paste that shit; maybe jig it around a little so it fit the purpose. Who cared if it got buried then? Genius, right?

You guys weren’t supposed to actually READ that stupid little blog, you know.

After a few weeks of posting, I woke up one morning to find my little blog had a comment. Within weeks, one comment had turned into a few people reading and commenting every day. Then I wrote a three part post called “Loved By A Vampire” – which was read by my kick-arse friend Leif, who made it her business to spread that shit all over Facebook. That post drew in many new readers and in just a few short months, we had to move away from free WordPress and self host the site. And then…well, you know the rest.

Like so many of you I’ve invested blood, sweat and tears in these characters – in both their TV and book incarnations. Hours spent reading and watching them. Days spent researching and writing material for this site. Moderating it. Maintaining it. Loving it…and sometimes hating it. Like an extra child it was loved without limits most of the time – interspersed with days I felt an overwhelming urge to kick it in the arse so hard, it couldn’t sit down for a week.

I’ve spent my hard earned on books, limited edition prints, and tickets to signings. I’ve sat up until the early hours, frosty beer in hand; writing and rewriting posts, picking fights on Facebook and pouring boiling oil on the trolls trying to scale our front gate. At times, it was a difficult and pretty thankless task. And yet, it’s also been the most fun we here could have online with our clothes on. From the weekly rapture that was Sunday Skars, to the unbridled rage of the True Blood Season 4 finale post, to MASpencer’s most awesome True Blood Recaps – you can say many things about the tone of this site (and many have)…but you could never say that it was uptight, stuffy or boring.

Of course, running this monstrosity has been far from a solitary endeavour. It’s a 24/7 occupation, and someone needs to baby sit this zoo while I sleep in another time zone at the arse end of the earth. I owe so much to my Viking sister-wives who tirelessly moderated, bitch-slapped, coddled and loved on all who posted here – in between writing amazing posts for the blog and the forum. These ladies – Serena, VikingLover, MASpencer, krtmd – as well as past mods ilovevampires, dazedrose and Ashley – understood implicitly my vision for this place, and the ethos underpinning it. They saw something they wanted to be part of and embraced it with every ounce of their commitment, passion and intensity. It can’t have been easy…it made no one rich, and it wasn’t always fun (yeah, we had lots of fights in private that you all never got to see) – but we made it to the finish line intact, and these ladies will always be counted amongst my friends. We’ve laughed together, fought together and speculated endlessly together. Finding soul mates like these in the often brutal world of online fandom has been one of the richest gifts I will take from here.

I also want to thank my partner, Ben – who has listened patiently to my every fandom drama and offered advice, or a much needed alternative point of view. He’s resurrected the site after technical difficulties more times than I can count. Sookieverse would have been buried three and a half years ago if we had to rely on my technical inability to keep it running. And let’s not even mention the good humour with which he’s taken my five year extra-marital love affair with a tall, blond fictional vampire.

While it takes the effort of individuals to build a site like this, the result is nothing more than a soapbox without a community to bring it to life. And YOU, dear reader, are that community. Witty, fiery, irreverent and intelligent, your contribution has made SVB a daily must-visit for many. From the emails I’ve been getting, I know that so many fans found their second home here and that makes me happy, and proud. An extra special shout out to those sites that ran many of those readers out of town – their loss was our gain. Their unwitting assistance herding the lost Viking hordes in this direction helped make Sookieverse the biggest, and most vocal online shrine to the Viking around.

I’ve been asked numerous times lately if I’ll start another fansite – the answer to that is a loud and resounding no. It’s definitely time for me to do other things. You know how I mentioned my tendency to fixate? These days my fixation is on an interest entirely outside fandom, and I’m happiest now pouring my energy into that. It has little in common with Sookieverse (or books, or vampires) except late nights. But that suits my night owl tendencies just fine.

For those of you still gutted at the ending of the Sookie books and the unfortunate reader bashing that has occurred in the press, don’t allow anyone – and I DO mean ANYONE – to poison the pleasure this series has given you over the years. I’ve poured my heart and soul into a website devoted to fictional characters that were brutally assassinated in the most trite way imaginable. She didn’t even have the courtesy to finish me off proper with that ending, and it would be easy to throw a pity party and write it all off as a big waste of time. Except that it wasn’t. No one can ever take what these books have given me…or take the memories I have of late nights spent laughing, raging and squealing with you all for the love of them.

That will always be mine. And it is yours, too.

For some of you (like me), the conclusion of the book series marks the end of your time in this fandom. Others are pushing forward with swords drawn and shields locked, into yet another round of True Torture Blood. No matter where you go from here Team Eric, I want you to remember one thing.

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Thanks for your years of hard work and commitment SVB and all those associated with it. This has been by far the best fandom I’ve ever been a part of and will probably ever be a part of again. Thanks for the awesome ride!

Ohhhh……….sob, sob, sob. It is all soooo sad. Thank you for all the good times, the great ideas thrashed out late at night, the wit and grace of everyone here.
I’ll miss this site and the fantastic people on it.
Love xxxxxx

I was never in fandom before Sookieverse. And I seriously doubt I ever will be again. But truthfully, the time I spent here was so much more than that. What you and Ben created was really something incredible. And not even the flaming pile of shit that passed for a final novel can take that away from you… or us.

Anyway, we’ll always have 2010, right? Love you, girl– truly, I do. And you should be proud as hell. This site’s amazing run will always be one of the internet’s finest moments.

This place was definitely a daily ‘must check’ site. I LOVED this site and had so much fun chatting and debating with mostly like-minded fans. I gave away all my books, but I’ll still have the memories of how great it was in the beginning. I still watch True Blood (even after all my good intentions not to) because I’m either a crazy optimist or a sad masochist. LOL I’ve given up on E/S there, but I still love the Viking. One of the saddest things is what this site could have been afterwards… but CH popped that balloon. I’d never been a part of a fandom like this, and I will miss it, and this place. I already do! Good luck with everything, THANK YOU for everything, and maybe I will see some of you around at some TB sites. I haven’t found one yet that is awesome like this one and may never. This place was one of a kind and will be deeply missed. *MUAH!*

Thank you so much SVB for all that you created here and maintained over the years. I very much enjoyed reading your posts and debating the books and TV show with other Viking-obsessed fans. I know my time wasn’t wasted investing so much energy into this series because I was able to share it with all of the lovely people here and I am so glad I found this place. Good luck with everything you do in the future and thank you.

I’m tearing up badly, but really, as always, I just want to say THANK YOU. Thank you so much for everything. It has been epic. And I do mean that.

The Viking Sisters I found here, even the ones I might not talk to all the time, are amazing. I have always loved how we have had each other’s backs no matter what. You guys cultivated something beautiful and magical here and nothing will ever take anything away from that. Not a shitty ending, nor a smug Banger. They can have their shitty ending and pretty crappy show.. we have something more valuable than any of that.

I am sad that there’s an end to the era, but I’m thankful to have been part of the era and thankful there was even an era in the first place. I’m gonna miss this–like totes, y’all. My husband won’t, though, because he probably got tired of hearing me rant and rave about our hunky Viking and re-reading the books every year and counting those towards my yearly book-reading goal. I love this site and toast to our good times.

Oddly, I’m OK with the new season of True Blood. I just pretend it was never based on the books and view it through a brand new lens. There’s a little more depth this season so far (if you ignore the episode Stephen Moyer directed).

Feel the love because it is pouring/flowing your way. Much appreciation for the years and all of your perspectives. Endings can be sad and (sniffle) this one is, but no one can take away the memories – those go with us.

Oh SVB…Thank you SO MUCH for giving us a place where we could laugh, speculate and share in our Viking love! <3 I'll always remember all the amazing, in depth posts that seemed to speak to me. It was like you were putting to page what I was thinking in my head. "Loved By A Vampire" is STILL probably my favorite of all your blog posts. THANK YOU for allowing us to speak our minds.

Even though the series ended…I'm thankful and glad for ONE thing. The friends I've made on here through the love of the characters of Eric and Sookie and the Sookieverseblog! TEAM ERIC 4 EVER!

Once a Team Eric, always a Team Eric. I’ll never forget this place and what you, SVB, and your mods did for this fandom. You contributed making my experience with the world of Sookie Stackhouse and Eric Northman 30 times richer and with your posts, analyses and speculations you fueled my imagination to no end.

A simple thank you just doesn’t seem to cut it for all the hard work and unsurpassed quality that has been Sookieverse!! I came here as one chased out of another site and never looked back. I have never been, and intend to never again, be a part of any fandom after the clusterfuc* that was DEA (and the 2nd half of season 4 on in True Blood). The “Viking Hordes” will miss you like crazy as we seem to be an invicible army just stuck in limbo forever! The powers that be, whether that nasty bitc* of an author or the twisted fuc*s at HBO seem to get their rocks off on torturing us! Who will take the sting out of our latest jabs or allow us to vent until calm? Anyway, I could go on and on (and on) but just wanted to join the chorus of THANK YOU’S FOR EVERTHING! “Loved by a Vampire” will live on as one of the finest pieces of work on characters I have ever read! I hope it will still be accessable in the future. All of you that worked so hard to make this site the shining star it was…..STANDING OVATION!!!!

Just wanted to send my thanks as well to SVM, the mods, and all the great people here at the Sookieverse. I always found the discussion well thought out, articulated, and the people welcoming. This place will be missed. Thanks for the time and effort you put into maintaining it for so long. Team Eric forever–nothing anyone can say or do will ever change that.:)

The Viking will always be in my heart Thanks for bringing and keeping this fandom alive, it was indeed never boring !

Although I was never a prolific poster I was one hell of a reader and lurker and laughed ( MAS- TB reviews had me falling off my chair many a time with laughter) or cried with everyone, learnt about some new book series to read and enjoyed the high quality of conversations that were held Sundays will never be the same..

So well done all of you, and SVB thank you so much for your little blog it was one hell of a ride !!

I had to stop reading twice because I teared up through your post SVB. Thank you for everything you’ve done, from your insightful posts, to talking me off the ledge, to creating this wonderful place. This was my first time (and last) in a fandom, and as soon as I found your site, I knew I’d found a home. I will never forget the laughs I shared in this wonderful place.

Thank you to all your mods for their time and hard work. I know it wasn’t always easy.

I go out of this fandom with my head held high. Charlaine can not take away my love for the Viking nor the wonderful women his character has brought to my life. Love ya T.

I always knew this day would come…regardless of how CH ended the series, eventually all good things must come to an end.

I’m not sure if I ever posted here, but I lurked almost daily. The quality of the blogs here was the best (bar none). And I agree, no one (not even CH) can take away the wonderful journey and great online community we shared.

Best wishes in all your future endeavors and many, many thanks to everyone involved in this great forum.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and passion for a beloved character with us. I’ve enjoyed your writing and found it to be insightful, thorough and incisive. Eric’s online fans helped me through the bitter disappointment of DEA, and I’ve also made friends over the years, so, no regrets. I wish you success in your new fixation.

Beautiful post. Thanks for EVERYTHING! Best of luck with your new obsession. For me, I’ll never get so attached to a character again. It was always brilliant to have a community of like minded souls when no one I knew in real life had ever heard of Eric Northman.

A big thank you to all that were involved in running this fantastic site! I had so much fun, and there were times (especially in the later seasons) that the site was much better than the show. I’ve moved on from the books and TB, but I’m so happy to have been a part of this incredible fandom, and am blown away by the smart, talented people who hung out here. Good luck in your future endeavors, SVB, I raise my glass to you and all the lovely gals (and guys) who took my fan experience to a whole new level. CHEERS!!!!

First of all thank you for the blood, sweat, tears and f bombs that you poured into this blog daily. I don’t think I could have made it to this season of True Blood without your (and MA Spencer’s) witty and truthful evisceration of seasons 2,3, and end of 4. As for Ms. Harris (who will never see another penny of my money) she cannot take away my passion for the Viking and my firm belief in an alternate HEA. Your insightful writing helped me to capture the essence of these characters in spite of their author’s final hatchet job and not let her steal the joy that was this fun journey. Best of luck to you on your future fixation!

Thank you SVB for giving us a home. I’ll never forget you or the thrill I felt when I found my kindred! Thank you mods, especially the ninja doctor, aka krtmd. You all made it worthwhile. Happy Trails to you…I hope we meet again!

I am crying now Thank you SVB and all the mods for this wonderful blog. I have never been part of any fandom before and I don’t think I have ever been as mesmerized by fictional characters like this (what is it about this ship ??!!!!) – especially Tall Blond Sexy Vampire God. I only discovered this site about 2 years ago and I am sorry not to be part of it from the beginning – but it wasn’t too late as I enjoyed every second of it (it was certainly a daily visit for me). I feel sad this is the end, but c’est la vie my friends.
Must say I really adore the last gif – now that will be the image I’ll hold in my mind when I think of the end of Sookie verse take that CH!! I am still on True Torture Blood train heading to hell, but to be honest there is nothing, and I mean nothing TB can do that can be as bad as what we were served in May … or can they??? We’ll see but as you said my shield is ready
Good luck with everything you do and all the best and if you ever decide to visit the land of vikings let me know.
Hugs from Stockholm

Thank you for the ride! Unfortunately I never had a time to sign in but I enjoyed your page very much. Even more than the show or the “damned” books. Skål på den saken och lycka till i dina nya utmaningar

SVB, through the years I lurked much,read daily, posted little. Luckily for me, there were always others who so beautifully expressed whatever I was thinking but couldn’t put into words.Whether I wanted to celebrate, or jump off a ledge, someone was always here to share a like sentiment and offer support. The laughs were un-matched to this day, anywhere on the internet. To say “thank you; you will be missed” doesn’t seem enough in the face of all you did for all of us, but it is my best from the bottom of my heart. Ch and all her f*ckery didn’t make me shed a tear, but your goodbye did. Have a wonderful life; you and the sookieverse–the best of the best— will remain a fond memory.

for years this was my home, the place where I spent my nights and my days (when I should be working ), I loved the posts well thought, the fantastic recaps of Maspencer, and devotion. Thank SVB, Maspencer, Serena and all mods that made our day more fun, crazy and passionate.

This is really full circle. My first comment was on a blog post and damn it..it is on your last post. Not enough thank you for my daily fix, hilarities, genuine fun and goodness on the site. An introverts first stab at fandom and forum fixations and honestly, my last. I wish you well SVB and all the moderators. Pray that all good things come your way!! Cheers!

It’s been quite a run, hasn’t it? In retrospect, you’ll see that Sookie, Charlaine, and even TrueBlood were supporting cast, and not what really happened. You have successfully run an Internet community, social media if you will, from top to bottom with nothing left out in between. This goes on your resumé. Where you go from here is up to you. You’ve proven that you have the chops to take it on. All the best to you, and thanks for building and maintaining this stellar community.

Wow, I cried, I literally fucking cried! SVB I have said it before and I will say it again, you are by far the coolest fucking chick I have ever had the privilege of meeting. From the epic days of schooling people on Facebook as well as this blog, to RR and all the other secret places where we have all talked endlessly, it is something I will always treasure. You are my “Ambassador of Quan,” and I love you!

It’s been some time…but a long overdue Thank you! My life is so much richer having come here. I’ve traveled more by coming here than any passport could have allowed. I’ve got friends for life and a passion that goes beyond just one book series. Thank you. Message some of us from time to time to let us know what’s up in your neck of the woods!

Oh, SVB and all my friends that I have met through this site…I will miss you all so much as we say good-bye. Thank you for all the late night banter and Viking love and heartbreak over the years. Thank you for connecting me with like minded people who I am happy to call friends. SVB, good luck to you and your new fixation.

Thank you all for the fun and conspiracy theories that brought much enjoyment and fun into my little fixation of a waitress in love with a Viking God….

I’ve also distanced myself from the fandom in the last two years with my own late night time-suckers (tvbaby#1 is 20 months and tvbaby#2 is on the way!). I was horribly disappointed in the last (several) book(s). But the friends I’ve made through this fandom will stand the test of time. And in my head is some yet-to-be-thought-up (or ever published) fanfic where Sookie and Eric somehow wind up together in the end.

I’m sticking it out with TB, mostly because I’ve gotten to know some of the cast and crew and like them too much to not watch their hard work, LOL. (You wouldn’t believe how long I’ve watched some shows just because I had friends working on them, lol.) But, it IS better this year so far. IMHO anyway.

Although I knew this moment had to come (and I totally understand, really I do), I still felt like crying when I read this just before coming home from work.

Words can not express how grateful I am for what you offered us so freely for so many years.

I remember the ‘Loved by a Vampire’ posts well, because that was the first time I found the blog whilst google-ing around for all things Sookie (I found the books through TB halfway 2009 and might have gotten a little obsessed with them ). I think I’ve reread some of your posts more times than DTTW, and believe me, that’s saying something.

After lurking for many years, in which I utterly enjoyed every entry and felt I had gotten to know the wonderful international crowd that gathered here, I finally found the courage to come out of the woodwork last year (I was an Internet-posting-virgin before SVB) and the warm welcome convinced me to continue. Thank you all for the safe environment that enabled me to find my bearings and allowed me to vent some of my mad ideas that kept spinning around in my head.

I’ve further expanded my horizons now, keeping in touch with friends on Amazon and Goodreads, enjoying the world you opened up for me (and not quite ready to ‘lighten up’ because ‘it’s just a book’), but I’ll never forget my first (especially considering how good it was).

I wish you and all the mods the best. May you always find happiness in the things that matter to you. Be proud, because you accomplished something very very special.

SVB thank you for a fantastic ride. This site has opened up a whole new world for me and for that I will forever be grateful. Plus I loved every minute when I was here reading the discussions. Through this place I met my own group of sister-wives and I couldn’t be happier.

Wishing you all the best SVB. Hey and we aren’t at the arse end of the world, we are in the best place (well I’m next door) in the world. .

SVB was my first official foray into fandom. I spent so many wonderful hours reading through theories and posts and talking with people who have become amazing friends. I’ve seen things that have made me laugh, that have made me cry, and things that can’t be unseen.

Thank you to SVB and all of the mods for putting together and maintaining such a wonderful site, a home to many of us.

I’m not writer at all, I’m the reader and man did I find things to read on this blog! HUGE THANKS to you SVB and your team for the great site you’ve created and maintained. You will be missed. Good luck and farewell :0)

I don’t know where to start. This place has been a significant part of my life for a few years now, and I will miss it. I have had an immense amount of fun here with all my Viking Sisters, and thoroughly enjoyed being a part of the Sookieverse. It was a place to share our pleasure about some things and disappointment about others, and towards the end there was a lot of disappointment to share. I want to thank you, Tina, for providing this little home for us. I can only imagine the amount of time and effort, as well as cost, that you – and Ben – have put into it, but you can be assured it was all greatly appreciated. I hope your new fixation goes well for you. I also want to thank the wonderful mods for their contribution. I know some of the members here also haunt some other places I spend time, so I will keep in contact with you there, but to those who do not, I love you all and I consider you friends and I will miss you.

I am sad to see you all go, but it is time. I enjoyed this site very much. Your insight and humor made the series so much better. I want to thank everyone here for their hard work and dedication. Gook luck in your future endeavors.

Many years ago during a search on True Blood recaps I stumbled across MASpencer and her hilarious write ups. I had never been a crazy fan of a series before. I never knew of such a thing!! I was instantly sucked in! And head over heels for a certain Viking! It felt great to find somewhere I could escape. Somewhere people said out loud what I was feeling. I ended up enjoying the recaps and the comments way more than the books or the show. Then as the show and the books spiraled downwards and out of control I felt myself “grow up” and grow out of this obsession. I could see others were growing up and walking away. Coming here was like having someone hold my hand as a friend slowly passed on. I knew as soon as I read the ending, the death was final.
So thank you!!! THANK YOU! for your years of hard work, for everything I’m sure you sacrificed. I do not think I will ever be a fan of anything like this again. Like you, I’m moving forward. But there will always be that place in my heart for a certain tall blonde Viking
Emily

I haven’t been the most attentive of suitors, but I will miss your intelligence, insight, humor and attention to detail. “Loved by a Vampire” has the features of a thesis. You could get a PhD based on it.

Well, I have to say that I’m gutted to say farewell so soon after the time I found you, but needs must when a devil drives! I’ve rooted around in the archives like a pig in clover, and I want to thank you and the other contributors, past and present, for one hell of a ride.

I also want to wish you all the very best for the future, and for your future projects. As long as you carry on with ‘carpe diem’ as your lodestone I think you can’t go wrong.

Finally, I must show my age by quoting from the Rolling Stones’ set at Glastonbury Festival this year: ‘I’m going to miss you’…

Thanks to you and your mods for all your time spent making this site the best of its kind.

Back in May, I donated my Sookie books to charity. I thought I would feel a pang of regret handing them over but it was remarkably easy. I didn’t shed a tear. However, the realization that this is the last post on this blog DID make me shed a tear (ok, several). That just illustrates what the best times of this fandom were about for me, it wasn’t reading the books but sharing the experience of the books with this online community.

I am so thankful for the wonderful people I’ve met through the Sookieverse. For that reason alone, I will never regret a minute I spent reading those books.

Thank you SVB for all you’ve done. I think I may have only posted twice, but I’ve always been here lurking – reading and laughing and crying at everything you and your wonderful co-conspirators wrote. I will miss you and this site very much. Good luck to you where ever life takes you. You’ve brought a smile to many a face, including mine. TEAM ERIC FOREVER!

I’ll forever treasure the wonderful memories I have of this fandom, especially all the laughs and joy I’ve had while reading your posts. Just like I’ll treasure the memory of Eric’s bright blue eyes and fangy grin. No lover was ever more swoon-worthy. I’ll never forget. And I’ll never regret it. To SVB and the mods in particular, I want to give a GP sized THANK YOU! You’re the best. You really are. Viking kisses to all.

Well, I’ve never been one that was able to keep my comments short and precise, or without cursing, and I’m damn sure not going to start that now, so I’ll go ahead and ask forgiveness for the length of this fucking novel of a comment and also for all the spelling/grammar mistakes that are bound to be in it.

I haven’t commented here in a while, as I quit watching True Blood after Season Four, and slowly drifted away from the books as well after that. Thankfully, I didn’t even read the last two books and all my disappointment in how the series ended was just second-hand. Basically I sort of abjured True Blood and the SVM novels, and not being smart enough to quit with the fandoms, moved on to other (perhaps even crazier!) fandoms.

Anyways, my point is that I’ve not had strong feelings in a while about True Blood/SVM, but reading this post and realizing that this is the final SVB post ever brings tears to my eyes every time that I think about it. I too have that trait of fixating on things and becoming a wee bit obsessed….hey we all didn’t earn the nickname “rabids” for nothing, did we? And when I first became fixated on the True Blood show and the SVM novels, I was so very lucky to stumble across this blog here. From that very first post that I read, I was blown away. Here I had found someone who “got it”. A person that pretty much felt exactly how I felt about the show and books, but yet was a thousand times more eloquent and witty than I could ever be. I was hooked from the first post, and then I kept coming back for more and more great posts and slowly saw the amount of comments rise from a handful of people to hundreds and hundreds of comments on the blog post. I watched as more and more people discovered this hidden gem of a fan-site and a forum was added for us, and mods had to be recruited to help out because “our little zoo” just kept getting bigger. And even though, I was never anything but a fan and a commenter, I was and remain so damn proud of this site and of you, SVB.

As I scrolled through the other comments in this post, I saw so many names that I recognize…and many of them that I recognize as people that I’ve gotten to know outside the realm of fandom. People that have become my friends, that I know about their lives and their families. People that I truly care so much for, and I would have never met these amazing people without this site.

To my Viking sisters and all my fellow “rabid” Eric-lovers, thank you all for making this site so fun, for all the laughs, compassion, and most of all for the friendship. You were the first people to show me that friendship doesn’t have to end with fandom, and you’ve introduced me to so many new and wonderful books and shows since we branched out from this fandom.

To all the mods, past and present, here at SVB, thank you for always maintaining order, but doing so in a way that never felt like you were trying to put yourself above anybody. You always made everyone feel welcomed, but still maintained things from devolving into complete chaos around here. I think you were never truly appreciated enough by some of us for all that you did here.

To MASSpencer, your recaps of this show rocked and half the time were better than the show itself. Thank you for all the time you spent putting them together for us.

To Mr. SVB, thank you for keeping the site up and running for us.

And most of all, to SVB, thank you for all of it. But I guess mostly just thank you for this site, thank you for our safe haven, thank you for our home.

Thank you SVB, as well as the mods and other contributors, for sharing your amazing ideas over the past few years, as well as all your efforts to make this a welcoming place for us to share our love of Eric. This was my first (and probably last) foray into fandoms, and it was always a treat to read the insights shared on this blog and forum. Sometimes reading the thoughts posted here was more insightful than watching the show or reading the books! I totally understand why you’re folding up shop, but please know that you will be missed all the same and that (for me, at least) there will never be another site that captures my devotion like this one did. Best wishes!

Sorry to see you go, and THANKYOU for your amazing work over the last few years! But yes, I agree it’s time for this fandom to call it quits. i find that SVM fanfic doesn’t cut it for me anymore, and while not MASSIVELY disappointed by the end of Bk #13 (thanks in large part to your heads up to how it was going to end), it was clear to see that CH actually detested us fans by the end, and that hurt.

I feel so sad about this news, although I know this day is gonna come. Due to my poor English, I didn’t post much, but I have enjoyed reading so many intelligent posts here. If not for your blog, I wouldn’t love Eric Northman that much. I’m sorry that CH is such a shallow witch, not even as one of hundred wisdom as yours, but this ending didn’t stain all those great memory. I’ll keep watch True blood, without putting too much heart in it, of course. Thank you so much for your passion and this wonderful blog. You’ll be missed.

I became interested in the Sookie world during the end of season 2 of True Blood. I actually read book one before I started the show, but didn’t continue with the book series until I had seen all of season 1 and 2. Eric was it for me after book 2 and season 2…yet I remember devouring websites trying to find like-minded people. I was so frustrated because I kept reading blogs from people that loved Bill. I just didn’t get it….and then I found your site. I remember reading your posts, nodding my head in agreement, while saying to myself, “Thank God everyone’s not brainwashed and stupid.” Your site has been at the top of my favorites list since and it’s become a habit to check in regularly. I’m so sad to see it go, but I understand the need for the site to end (sadly on my b-day.) (I’ll also miss that awesome illustrated pic of Eric you use for your banner!) Thank you SVB and all the mods for all the hardwork you’ve put into this site. Your site has brought so much joy to so many. Oh, and CH can still go f*** herself. It never gets old saying that. Long live the Viking.

So sad to see it end for I’ve enjoyed this wonderful ride. Thank you so much for the love and dedication that you’ve all put forth for our beloved fandom. You’ve been the absolute best and you will be greatly missed. Goodbye and Good Luck.

I’ve never commented much, because everyone else always had much better ways of saying all the things I wanted to say, which is still the case in your final post.

Your insights have been amazing and your posts have made me laugh, cry and all that other cheesy stuff. Thanks SVB for keeping this going for so long and everyone else who was involved and help make it happen.

So sad that it’s come to an end, I’ll never forget this site that I will continue to visit daily until it really is no more.

SVB, thank you for sharing your labor of love with us for all these years. I can’t say enough what a pleasure it was to come here and find the perfect mix of intelligent discussion, over the top ranting, and shameless Eric/ASkars lusting. I miss it so much already. Goodbye and I wish you all the best in your future.

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Team Eric is as immortal as he is. I’ll always consider him the one that got away, that slipped through the fingers of his creator and escaped into the world at large. He’ll be the one that’s remembered in the long run. I believe CH didn’t kill him because she knew he’d never stay dead. She tried to lock him away, but he’s already gone, she just doesn’t know it yet.

On my tablet so will be quick. So sad but i knew it was coming. SVB you provided the best home this eric lover could have asked for. Especially as it was my first foray into a fandom of any kind. Sookieverse always had the smartest analysis and funniest commentary on the svm and tb. And the mods rocked. Just awesome.

Farewell tina, serena, krtmd, mas, vl, ilv, ashely, dazed and all of the truly fab peeps i have met on here. You made my sookiverse journey so much fun. Muah

Early on back in the day when i first found this place, I combed over SVB’s posts, and I was caught in awe of her detail in analyzing the series (probably much like everyone else was ensnared). But then I noticed the comments and I HAD TO GO TO THERE. The community that had developed here was pretty special. And well, things exploded in various ways as the community continued to develop and expand. I will never forget our commitment to blending nerdom with rabid unabashed fangirl/boying, whether it was inventing laminated placemats, or discussing vampire property tax laws, or slapping down the Ballshit, or deftly but-oh-so-politely smashing Bangers heads together when they came to visit. Good times, good times.

There really aren’t enough words to describe what this place meant to me personally. Hrrm.

But here are some particular final notes:

To SVB, – We sure did have some epic fights, didn’t we, Bizzle? Of course, they were more like epic one sided throw-downs where I schooled your ass, let’s be real. Much love, from your third child. <3

To VL, my love, – No one knows me better. Btw, I had dumplings for lunch today.

To MAS, – No one could sling a verbal tampon quite like you, lady. And I will say it one last time, and this time I mean it. Wocka, wocka, bitch.

To Krtmd, – You have been so supportive of me and a great friend. Ugh. ILU.

To Ben, Dazed, Ash, Erika, to all the members of the Holy A.S.S., to everyone who ever posted on the blog and in the forum, to everyone who merely hung around in silence just reading this place, thanks for your time and attention, it was fun. (Obviously).

Oh man…..words cannot express the deep gratitude for creating this site. It was a daily part of my life and I spent many enjoyable hours on here. One positive we can take from Charlene Harris and her books as well as True Blood is that it brought us all together So gonna miss this place and the sisterhood of fellow viking fans. An end of a great era and I will have bitter-sweet memories. Thanks again!!!

One thing for people still invested in SSN. Try True Blood this year. Eric is large and in charge. He isn’t exactly like book Eric, but the longer they write him, and the deeper Alex’s interpretation gets, it’s closer than you’d think. Ballz is gone and things are looking up. Last season was a travesty, but this season is good. I’m even liking Sookie again. She’s already staked Bill in one EP (to save Eric) and she called him an asshole in another.